M. Scott Peck Quotes
The more effort we make to appreciate and perceive reality, the larger and more accurate our maps will be. But many do not want to make this effort.
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.
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I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.
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You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be demilitarized, there's no way to reverse statehood if it violates it.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
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J. J. Abrams is amazing.
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In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.
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I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music. More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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I appreciate the written word and spoken word more, but Atonement sort of established so much of me. It was a character that didn't really speak, and I found that a lot of the roles I was gravitating toward after that were kind of nonverbal.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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In 50 years, there will be only 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education and Udacity has a shot at being one of them.
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I don't have a problem being on 'MTV,' and I don't have a problem being on the radio. I actually like it. So there. And anyone that calls me a sell out is just jealous.
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The more effort we make to appreciate and perceive reality, the larger and more accurate our maps will be. But many do not want to make this effort.
